As midwife-assisted home births rise, so too do high-risk births outside hospitals
People are choosing home birth for vaginal delivery after cesarian and other high-risk births, and some experts say they can be done safely.
Kay Kay Lineweaver’s first birthing experience in 2021 didn’t go as planned. Her baby was breech and the doctor wouldn’t allow her to try to give birth vaginally, so she ended up with an unwanted cesarean section.
“[The obstetrician] wouldn’t even give me the option,” she recalled later in a podcast called “Healing Trauma Mamas.” Lineweaver said she felt like she “didn’t have control” and that the birth process was “a nightmare.”
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